A story is told of a singing man from Peterborough, who went to Wisbeach, as clerk, and then read the burial service, when he was insulted in the rudest manner, and knocked down, the poor fellow crying out, "I am a Covenanter."—Moderate Intelligence, January, 1647.
[550] Letters, ii. 274.
[551] Letters, ii. 298, 299.
Baillie complains of the growing influence of the Erastians.—Ibid., 311, 318, 320.
[552] These rules are given in Rushworth, vi. 210.
[553] Baillie's Letters and Journals, ii. 362, et seq.
[554] Ibid., 344.
[555] Godwin, ii. 10.
[556] Neal, iii. 311.
[557] See Letter to Parliament, in Rushworth, vi. 234.